Photos for May 2, 2016

An early start this morning.

Sunrise and the moon.

Some photos with my 10-20mm lens and my recently acquired 55-300 DX lens -- I finally got to test it out on the moon, which came out spectacular compared to my oldish 70-210 kit lens that I will no longer be using, especially since the 55-300 has VR. With the image sensor's 1.5x image crop factor, it's like having a 450mm lens.

6:25 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary

6:35 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary

6:43 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary (apologies for the bad color correction)

6:58 am photo, wide angle at Chapman Elementary

300mm shot at the moon

You can make out the craters of the moon

300mm shot of the Pearl District from Chapman Elementary

Cherry blossoms at night.

I messed up. I didn't have enough juice in the batteries, so I rushed these photos and took just a handful of shots at 4:30~5:30 am. Normally in the daytime the waterfront would be filled with people wandering around the cherry blossoms, so it occurred to me that the best time to photograph them would be in the middle of the night with long exposures ~ 1 minute.

Retail design work continues.